The 12 Kits of Occasions

February 28, 2015

Bye, Bye Birdie

Hi everyone--Sharron here! Welcome to the February edition of the 12 Kits of Occasions! The theme title for this month is "Bye, Bye, Birdie!" When the list of themes was posted I knew immediately I wanted to prepare a kit with supplies featuring birds. Birdwatching is a huge part of my life and it's partly how my husband and I met. You might be amused with all the bird decor we have in our home plus bird feeders and a pond outside! When putting my kits together I always look for the paper first. Actually this time it was harder than usual until I fell in love with a collection from Prima called Free Spirit. There are wonderful free-flowing graphic patterns and great spring colors. I also took the opportunity to purchase some new stamps and dies from a variety of companies. I hope the other 12 Kits designers found some fun images to play with and that you will enjoy your visit to all their blogs.

Be sure to visit our newest designer's blog! Tracey introduced Michele Ferguson to everyone yesterday. If you've never visited her blog you've really been missing out. She is so amazingly creative!!

And we are so fortunate to have a guest designer with us this month too. Taunya Butler, Daisies Girl, won the contest last month. We are all super excited to see what she did with her kit.!

Tanya Butler - Guest Designer

The 12 Kits Team...

Tracey

Joyce

Kim

Lindsey

Kelly

February 27, 2015

Introducing Michele Ferguson

Please join us in welcoming the newest member of the 12 Kits of Occasions, Michele Ferguson!

I couldn’t be more pleased to be “playing cards” as I call this craft, with these fabulous, talented ladies! I am still a newbie in blog-land, and will celebrate my 1st year in May. I started I Card Everyone just to have a place to post my cards...little did I know I’d find those I now consider my best friends – and life preservers!

In my days of punching a clock, I was an insurance agent, then a Mary Kay lady, then was hired as a Trade Show manager for a dental products company. I left that job to attend culinary school at age 50, and still occasionally cater small events. My best career choice ever? I am now a SAHW [stay at home wife] to my very best friend, my husband of nearly 20 years, Mom to three grown/married kids, and “Grammy” to six...home really is where my heart is.

Tomorow is our favourite day of the month!

Come back and visit us for the reveal of the February Kit

February 4, 2015

Winner of Guest Designer Contest!!!!

Sharron here, I just did the drawing for the February Guest Designer and the winner is---drumroll, please........

#6

Taunya Butler said...

We are for some reason very fortunate to have lots of birds in our back yard ALL the time!! I love Bluebirds and have seen some gorgeous ones on our backyard!! We have a plum tree that the birds seem to flock under - We love seeing so many birds under our tree!!! This would be a super fun opportunity!! Thanks for the chance!!!

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Taunya, we are so happy that you will be joining us this month. I just need your address so I can get your kit in the mail. Please email me at deuxpapillons@cox.net. A big thank you to everyone who left a comment. Both my husband and I are avid birders and I always love hearing about what birds everyone is seeing. We have had a large number coming to feeders in our yard this year--a good sign as some populations seemed to be recently falling off.

January 31, 2015

.A Happy Hello

It's January 2015, time for "A Happy Hello" from all of us here at 12 Kits, as we are excited to bring you a new year of themes and occasions...

Kelly here :)...I chose the "Happy Day" patterned paper collection from Pebbles to start off my kit. Not only does it feature some "Hello" paper...but also whimsical, fun colors and patterns and themes perfect for saying hello to friends near and far. The stamps and die cuts featured are from some fabulous companies including Lawn Fawn, WPlus9, Papertrey Ink, and Waltzingmouse Stamps. My favorite items to include in a kit are always the embellishments! I had so much fun picking them out for this kit...right down to the wood veneer planes and bicycles!

We have two guest designers joining us this month...

Karen Stein

Michelle Leone

and the 12 Kits Team...

Kelly

Jeanne

Jessica

Joyce

Kim

Cathy (on break)

While this month is a Happy Hello to 2015, it's also a bit of a sad "so long" to two team members who are stepping down for now to spend some extra time with family. I say "for now" because our door is always wide open for their return...even if we have to add two extra months to the year ;)!

So this is just a "See you later, sweet friends!" to our girls Renee Lynch and Kara Vrabel!

We'll miss you terribly, but are so glad you are just a mouse click away! Hugs!

********SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT********

Would you like to be a Guest Designer in February?? The theme is BIRDS and we would love to see what wonderful creations you would make with our next kit. Of course, there will be lots of bird related supplies! So how can you enter our little contest? Well, just leave a comment below telling us if you have a favorite bird and whether you do anything special to attract birds to your home--feeders, ponds, etc. The deadline for the drawing will be February 4th! We will pick a random winner and get your kit in the mail to you ASAP. We post our cards on the last day of the month, which in February will be Saturday, February 28. Sorry but we can only accept U.S. and Canada participants due to mailing issues.

December 30, 2014

The 12 Kits of Occasions - December '14

The 12 Kits Team

It's almost the new year and with it the December edition of our 12 Kits of Occasions team is creating some projects for "new" additions to the family. Cathy Weber here, this month's hostess to introduce you to our December "Baby, It's a New Year" kits. I was lucky enough to wind up at the end of our yearly rotation and had more than a year to start collecting papers, stamps and dies for our baby kit. I used digital paper from Echo Park (Bundle of Joy Boy & Girl) as the basis of the kit and built all the elements from there. For a complete listing of the kit ingredients, just click on the 2014 Monthly Kit Supplies tab at the top of the page. This month joining our regular group of 12 designers, I have invited one of my very talented and crafty friends, Lynn Mangan of The Mango Boys & Me to join us. With four boys, I am sure she knows a thing or two about designing baby cards! I hope you enjoy all the baby goodness the team has to share with you today. Happy New Year!

Cathy

Lynn Mangan
(December Guest Designer)

Kim

Kelly

Jessica

Joyce

Lindsey

Kara

Jeanne

Marybeth

Renee

Sharron

Tracey

Check out our supplies tab at the top of the blog for a complete list of supplies :) And as always, join us next month for another amazing kit!http://onpapillonwings.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-12-kits-of-occasions-december-with.html

November 30, 2014

The 12 Kits of Occasions - November '14

The 12 Kits Team

Hello, my name is Kim and I am the hostess for our 12 Kits of Occasions this month. Can you believe it Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is just a few short weeks away. One of the things I love about the 12 Kits groups is having lots and lots of Christmas cards ready to go by the time Christmas arrives and they are so much fun to make too.

For my theme this month I decided to make Santa the star of the show! I love Christmas movies and actually love watching them year round. The Santa Clause is at the top of my list of favorite movies and I love the line from his sweet little elf Judy...Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing. I use this all the time at school and I am always surprised to see how many children can guess the movie.

I hope you enjoy seeing all of the magical creations for all the 12 Kits designers...Thank you so much for stopping by.